Re: Let's start a new convention Teaching Magnetism

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

> I'm a bit lost here -- how does this conflict or confuse G's law?  This
> is because I don't follow the "fact" that field goes into and leaves
> from a pole.  I thought the idea of pole was it was a place where field
> enamated from or disappeared into, not both.

That IS the idea and it is why the concept of a "magnetic pole" is at
least a little tricky since lines of magnetic induction do not (as
far we know today) have beginnings or ends.

John
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